<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: xiphias2</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=xiphias2</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 17 Aug 2026 07:19:07 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=xiphias2" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xiphias2 in "RISC-V: They Should Have Known Better"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If RISC-V was good enough for AMD to use it in their controller for their GPUs and it became cheaper than ARM, and NVIDIA is using it in many places, it was better to build upon than getting a change in ARM/x86 licensed and approved by Jim Keller, it's good enough.<p>It turns out that the cost of waiting years for an ISA change is more costly than fixing whatever problems it has.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:42:51 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49311527</link><dc:creator>xiphias2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49311527</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49311527</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xiphias2 in "Simplifying and Refactoring Introductory Calculus (2018)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>,, additionally, moving limits to the end of a first-year course allows students to develop intuitions around the derivative first before seeing the formal proof of their validity’’<p>Waiting a year to get from intuition to theorems is a perfect way to ruin math.<p>Math is not supposed to be easy/simple, but it supposed to be a great way to understand systems based thinking.<p>At the same time there could be more examples taught on why these building blocks were historically needed and what they are used for solving nowadays.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 15 Aug 2026 04:03:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307529</link><dc:creator>xiphias2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307529</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49307529</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xiphias2 in "Mojo 1.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Thanks, it's so boring and disappointing.<p>LLVM has such a cool tutorial, eventhough I haven't written a programming language myself, it was excitung to go through it to see how static programming languages are lowered to SSA form.<p>Mojo should have something showing how to write a super fast matmul and especially what's interesting for me is a fast linear attention kernel, as that's where PyTorch is getting much harder to use.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2026 07:51:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49269092</link><dc:creator>xiphias2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49269092</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49269092</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xiphias2 in "Mojo 1.0"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Mojo may be interesting to me, but they should really split it from Max, which is some closed stuff I'm  not interested in.<p>They should show some performance comparisions between PyTorch and Mojo, PyTorch+kernel compilation + Triton vs Mojo, ThunderKittens vs Mojo.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:58:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49262884</link><dc:creator>xiphias2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49262884</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49262884</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xiphias2 in "Should AI labs be treated like the owners of dangerous animals?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Exploitbench in itself isn’t that different from gain of function research in computer code, I can imagine the next being ExploitAndCopyYourselfBench.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 08 Aug 2026 01:15:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49218013</link><dc:creator>xiphias2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49218013</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49218013</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xiphias2 in "China begins producing advanced chipmaking deep-ultraviolet lithography machines"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Sure, and spent most of it experimenting with something nobody knew would work in production or not, and needed a lots of breakthrough ideas that are now known as the machines exist.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2026 02:49:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140591</link><dc:creator>xiphias2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140591</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49140591</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xiphias2 in "Our position on open-weights models"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Not really, the only reason I (or any other programmer) haven't ever hacked into a system to make my life easier (not to do bad things) is because it's illegal.<p>It was always easier than making a system secure.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:06:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49080829</link><dc:creator>xiphias2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49080829</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49080829</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xiphias2 in "How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Everybody who has rewritten software understands the current phase: it mostly works, but there are always things to fix to make sure that there are no regressions, and the pressure is huge for any release.<p>I still believe it was the good decision, but I also know that I wouldn't be the first person to run the release in prod.<p>I think Jarred should start making release candidates instead of releases to take some of the pressure off.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 27 Jul 2026 12:35:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49068778</link><dc:creator>xiphias2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49068778</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49068778</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xiphias2 in "ARC-AGI Leaderboard"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>,,You can play this game of whack-a-mole indefinitely if the state of the system is concealed''<p>Not really as one of the main goals ofr ARC-AGI 3 was measuring task efficiency on unseen games.<p>I'm sure there are cheats everywhere but the most sensible thing is to just accept that the LLMs of today are much more intelligent in solving reasoning tasks than the ones from half year ago.<p>My own private benchmark shows the same thing.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 25 Jul 2026 08:10:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49045553</link><dc:creator>xiphias2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49045553</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49045553</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xiphias2 in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So far it seems that he's winning as OpenAI is being sued, not Liu</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2026 10:04:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48870526</link><dc:creator>xiphias2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48870526</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48870526</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xiphias2 in "Chat Control 1.0 and 2.0 Explained"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You need open hardware and open software at that point and you won't be able to use government identification as they depend on closed source parts of the Android ecosystem. Also you need identification for side loading apps at some point.<p>Non of these laws stop you from opting out of surveillance,  but altogether it gets so hard that at some point you get more suspicious and tracked if you do all this than if you don't do any of these.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2026 12:34:49 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48831132</link><dc:creator>xiphias2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48831132</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48831132</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xiphias2 in "Fable 5 update: Still willing to cybercrime"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's because there's no real solution to the alignment problem.<p>Humanity is on aggregate optimizing for increasing collective intelligence and I don't see that stopping as the main goal when AI gets smarter than humanity, just hope that we all will have a nice human life.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:14:37 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48758148</link><dc:creator>xiphias2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48758148</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48758148</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xiphias2 in "Solid and Clean Code never felt solid or clean to me"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>If you want something real, look at Clean Code Horrible Performance youtube video if you haven't.<p>I also found Bob Martin entertaining, but after trying to follow his suggestions I just got into the trap that Casey Muratori shows: even if I don't care about the performance of the code at the start, the amount of abstractions Uncle Bob advises makes it just too easy to make the code extremely hard to optimize later.<p><a href="https://youtu.be/tD5NrevFtbU?is=vuVfjbsINQrtfvbC" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/tD5NrevFtbU?is=vuVfjbsINQrtfvbC</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2026 17:41:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48750530</link><dc:creator>xiphias2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48750530</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48750530</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xiphias2 in "US Supreme Court Just Blew Up EU-US Data Transfers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>EU needs to decide if it wants to do data processing or not.<p>If it’s a yes, it needs datacenters and get a lot more energy.<p>If no, it needs to transfer data to US for training/inferencing on it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 07:36:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48729622</link><dc:creator>xiphias2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48729622</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48729622</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xiphias2 in "Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron Sued in US over Memory Price Fixing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>But Micron didn't restrict the output: it stopped producing DDR2-3-4 completely, so it's not profiting from DDR customers at all.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:56:44 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48721762</link><dc:creator>xiphias2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48721762</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48721762</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xiphias2 in "Samsung, SK Hynix, Micron Sued in US over Memory Price Fixing"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>,,The plaintiffs claimed the three companies reduced D-RAM supply under the pretext of transitioning to high-bandwidth memory (HBM). "The D-RAM oligopoly companies systematically coordinated the shift to HBM and the discontinuation of DDR3 and DDR4," they said. They added that Apple's recent sweeping product price increases were the trigger for the lawsuit.''<p>How can they do price fixing and discontinuing a product at the same time? 
It just looks like some companies are angry that AI / VC industry is outpricing them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:30:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48719059</link><dc:creator>xiphias2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48719059</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48719059</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xiphias2 in "Danish privacy activist Lars Andersen raided by police"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think the sim cards are more important: he wrote that Nest switched to local recording mode and the police took the evidence.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2026 06:26:17 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48626475</link><dc:creator>xiphias2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48626475</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48626475</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xiphias2 in "I hate compilers"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>ASLR is important, but you should be able to provide the random seed (I don't know if it's possible or not)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:41:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48585151</link><dc:creator>xiphias2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48585151</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48585151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xiphias2 in "The hacker sent by Anthropic to calm the government's nerves about AI safety"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It was always the same, Google even lost a big lawsuit because it went too far in doing what the Biden administration was asking.<p>Twitter and Facebook also did what they ,,had to''.<p>The thing that's new here is that Antropic's growth rate was so enormous that Dario didn't have time to learn to lobby.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2026 21:27:22 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577162</link><dc:creator>xiphias2</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577162</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48577162</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by xiphias2 in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What's interesting is that all big LLM providers figured out that the revenue comes from coding as it can be trained with RL rewards.<p>It means that most people will never understand how fast the landscape is moving: non-coding and non-homework use cases didn't change that much since last year.</p>
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